CFP 17.06.2011

Communicating with the Sacred (Kalamazoo, 10-13 May 12)

47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, 10.–13.05.2012
Eingabeschluss : 15.09.2011

Sarah Blick

Call for papers for the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Session:
Communicating with the Sacred. Visual Puns, Rebuses, and Codes: Words
and Images in the Art of the Later Middle Ages (1200-1600)

"A good pun is its own reword." Ooo, bad -- but artists and patrons
during the later Middle Ages did not agree with our modern assessment.
Evidence for their interest can be found in images that drew on
delicate, sometimes ribald, and often scholarly word play. Inventive
etymology, creative linkages of homonyms, and lively rebuses appear in
sculpture, painting, and even architecture. Codes, secret and otherwise,
also appeared. This session seeks papers that explore the relationship
between word and image and how later medieval audiences responded to and
understood such interplay. While much scholarship has been done in this
area for manuscript illumination, we are interested in similar studies
that are applied to other media, especially sculpture whose imagery and
message can be correlated to their architectural space.

Please send your abstract and a paper proposal form by September 15,
2011
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html

to Sarah Blick at blickskenyon.edu
or at
Sarah Blick
Art History, Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022 USA
Fax: (740) 427-5673

Quellennachweis:
CFP: Communicating with the Sacred (Kalamazoo, 10-13 May 12). In: ArtHist.net, 17.06.2011. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/1552>.

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